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Refreshed menus provide healthier choice for visitors and staff

Whether you are dining in or taking away, you’ll now have access to a range of healthier food and drinks at the food outlets and vending machines across our health service. In the last two years, our Health Promotion team have been working hard to implement the Victorian Government Healthy choices: policy directive, a directive …

Helping children thrive with a colourful variety of foods

Congratulations to Capel Sounds Educational Child Care Centre (ECCC) and Kindergarten for winning our FoodChecker prize draw, a brand new android tablet! Capel Sounds ECCC recently completed a FoodChecker menu assessment to ensure their service was meeting the Victorian Menu Planning Guidelines for Long Day Care. By meeting the guidelines, Capel Sounds ECCC are ensuring …

Local secondary school recognised for its outstanding achievements in the mental health and wellbeing space

Elisabeth Murdoch College (EMC) is celebrating after recently achieving recognition from the Victorian Government and Cancer Council Victoria’s Achievement Program (AP), for the Mental Health and Wellbeing health area. This well-deserved recognition acknowledges the schools ongoing efforts to prioritise the health and wellbeing of all students, staff and families. To support this work, EMC is …

Guiding the way to better stroke rehabilitation

Recovery following an injury is never easy, particularly if it is an injury to the brain caused by a stroke. Delayed intervention can lead to widespread and long-lasting problems, so it is important that best practices are in place to give stroke survivors optimal chances at regaining their strength.  Photo: Dr Laura Jolliffe completes arm …

Faces of Peninsula Health: Aymee Watson

Meet Aymee, one of our Registered Nurses here at Peninsula Health! Aymee has been a Registered Nurse with our health service since her graduate year in 2021. However, her Peninsula Heath journey started a year earlier as a third-year nursing student at Rosebud Emergency Department. “I have spent the majority of my nursing career at …

Recognition for sexual health and wellbeing at Carrum Downs Secondary College

Congratulations to Carrum Downs Secondary College for their amazing efforts which have resulted in a Sexual Health and Wellbeing priority recognition by the Heathy Schools Achievement Program. The school achieved this priority area through a whole school approach, which included developing both their sexual health and wellbeing and school uniform policies, student led action of …

Q&A with Medical Intern Dr Jonathan Tran

Flying more than 14,000 km to study medicine at the University of Melbourne, Dr Jonathan Tran has since completed his studies and joins Peninsula Health as a Medical Intern, gaining the final skills necessary to become a fully qualified doctor.  Inspired from a young age to work in medicine, Dr Tran is looking forward to …

Children on The Bay – How Capel Sounds Educational Child Care Centre and Kindergarten are dedicated to caring for Country

This blog was written by Madeline Tatham, Health Promotion Practitioner at Peninsula Health In September 2022, Capel Sounds Educational Child Care Centre and Kindergarten (Capel Sounds ECC&K) were acknowledged by the Healthy Early Childhood Services Achievement Program for their ongoing commitment to Climate and Health. As part of their work in this space, the centre …

From clinical placement to graduate year: Chloe returns to Peninsula Health

Chloe Vigliaroni is one of the 90 nursing graduates completing their graduate year at Peninsula Health. Commencing her first rotation beachside at Rosebud Hospital on Walker ward, Chloe has begun caring for patients across a wide range of health problems including respiratory illnesses and diseases, cardiac issues, diabetes management and wounds/skin conditions.  “I gain great …

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